Daily News Round-up: National Small Business Week, and a spike in small business confidence

Congratulations! This week marks the 50th anniversary of National Small Business Week. The U.S. Small Business Administration will be hosting workshops and mentoring match-ups today in Dallas/Ft. Worth and later this week in St. Louis, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C., and events (featuring entrepreneurs like Jack Dorsey of Square and Twitter and Angie Hicks of Angie’s List) will stream live here.

Slowing sales? Over at The New York Times, Paul Downs is running a four-part series on his decision to hire a sales consultant. You can read yesterday’s introductory post here, and today’s post on how his sales process broke down here.